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Tim Johnson to critics of Fedor Emelianenko matchup: ‘You’d be stupid not to watch this fight’

Who the f*ck is Tim Johnson?

Reading Twitter is almost never a good thing in the long run. That goes especially for combat sports practitioners, and yet, said Bellator heavyweight logged on and found that greeting when his fight with the retiring Fedor Emelianenko was announced.

“Well, f*cking look me up,” responded Johnson on What the Heck. “It’s not my fault you don’t know who I am. I’ve been in the game for quite a f*cking while.”

On his way to get stitches after a June loss to Emelianenko’s protege, Valentin Moldavsky, for the interim title, Johnson had told his manager to put his name in the hat to be the last opponent of “The Last Emperor.